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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does Vivar thank Harper?
(a) Saving Vivar's life.
(b) Covering the bridge across the river.
(c) Starting the forest fire.
(d) Saving the stongbox.

2. What does Williams suggest to Sharpe?
(a) They go east away from the French.
(b) They rescue the prisoners.
(c) They scatter in the woods.
(d) They surrender to the French.

3. How does Vivar refer to his brother?
(a) As a duke.
(b) As a traitor.
(c) As a murderer who killed their father.
(d) As his half brother.

4. Where do the riflemen go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) The go behind the barn.
(b) North on the road.
(c) They go behind the French troops.
(d) They go into the woods.

5. What does Sharpe advise George to do?
(a) Join with the Spanish army.
(b) Go to Lisbon.
(c) Stay with Vivar.
(d) Go to the coast.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the fortress to which the soldiers come built?

2. In what direction is Davila supposed to go when he leaves Vivar?

3. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount at the dinner table?

4. What does Murray believe when he offers Sharpe advice?

5. Why does Louisa invite herself to dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as Sharpe is about to order his riflemen to flee the house and who joins him in the woods?

2. What does Dunnet order the riflemen to do when the French are charging them and what is Sharpe's response?

3. What does Major Dunnet tell Sharpe to do, how does he address him and how does he feel about Sharpe? What does Murray suspect about Dunnet's feelings towards Sharpe?

4. What does Sharpe have his riflemen do when the French ambush them?

5. Why do Sharpe's men begin to call out enthusiastically when the Parkers come in front of the assembly and what does Mrs. Parker explain to Sharpe?

6. Why does Sharpe withdraw his small force of riflemen he left in the woods?

7. What does Sharpe do to talk to the French and what is the French colonel's appearance like compared to Sharpe?

8. Who, of the French forces chasing Vivar, does Vivar watch the most and why?

9. What does de l'Eclin accuse Sharpe of and what is Sharpe's response? What does Vivar's brother say?

10. What does Murray tell Sharpe before Murray dies?

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